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What the Oldest Known Cave Painting Reveals About 2021-04-16 17:00:00Ancient humans began to draw symbols on caves at least 45,500 years ago, according to a surprising finding on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi.

Japan Just Had Its Earliest Peak Bloom of 2021-04-16 15:00:00An exceptionally warm spring has led to the early arrival of cherry blossoms in Japan, causing researchers to draw patterns between local temperature

Beyond COVID, the Future of mRNA Is Bright 2021-04-16 13:00:00Scientists say the technology behind the COVID-19 vaccines could change medicine and lead to new treatments against diseases like malaria, cancer and

Holotropic Breathing Promises Psychedelic-Like Trips Without the Drugs. 2021-04-16 10:00:00Many people report having spiritual experiences and psychological shifts while practicing intense and forceful breathing. But experts say this type of

The Sky Phenomena That May Have Inspired Artist 2021-04-16 08:00:00Did volcanic aerosols inspire the artist's new direction?

How Plant 'Vaccines' Could Save Us From a 2021-04-15 16:00:00Researchers are formulating unconventional solutions for tree diseases that harm beloved foods like oranges and chocolate. These include a potential R

Fight or Flight? Why Our Caveman Brains Keep 2021-04-15 15:00:00Once an evolutionary benefit that helped keep our ancestors alive, cortisol, the hormone that triggers our fight-or-flight response, may now be doing

The 5 Most Important Scientific Equations of All 2021-04-15 13:00:00Calculating the most influential scientific equations is no easy task. But these five certainly rank in the top tier.

Marmots Are Teaching Their Captive-Bred Friends How to 2021-04-15 10:00:00Once critically endangered, Vancouver Island marmots are now teaching each other how to recover.

A Mysterious Mass in a Man's Kidney Points 2021-04-15 08:00:00One minute, Albert was feeling fine. The next he was overcome by cramps and nausea. Then came the blood.

How AI Accidentally Learned Ecology by Playing StarCraft 2021-04-14 19:00:00A video game about battling aliens could help ecologists study life on Earth.

Pollinators Are in Trouble. Here's How Transforming Your 2021-04-14 17:00:00Biologists are recruiting everyday gardeners to save pollinators, with a little help from a smartphone app.

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Rare Wild Coffee Species Has Arabica-Like Flavor, Greater 2021-04-20 15:55:11The enigmatic narrow-leaved coffee (Coffea stenophylla), a rare and little-known species of wild coffee from West Africa, has a similar flavor profile

Genome-Wide Data from Stone Age Bears Recovered from 2021-04-20 14:40:15Scientists have reconstructed the genomes of the extinct giant short-faced bear (Arctodus simus) and the American black bear (Ursus americanus) using

Archaeologists Find 3,450-Year-Old Alphabetic Inscription in Israel 2021-04-20 13:09:08A team of archaeologists from the Austrian Archaeological Institute and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Institute of Archaeology has discov

New Barium Sulfate-Based Paint is Whitest Yet 2021-04-20 11:32:33The new barium sulfate- (BaSO4) acrylic paint has a solar reflectance of 98.1%, according to a paper published online in the journal ACS Applied Mater

Scientists Sequence Genome of Extinct Steller’s Sea Cow 2021-04-19 15:15:14A multinational team of researchers has successfully sequenced and analyzed the genome of the Steller’s sea cow (Hydrodamalis gigas). Their resu

Martian Climate Fluctuated between Drier and Wetter Periods 2021-04-19 13:49:02Mars had drier and wetter eras before drying up completely in the Hesperian period, about 3 billion years ago, according to an analysis of observation

NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter Successfully Demonstrates Powered, Controlled Flight 2021-04-19 09:48:31On April 19, 2021, NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter made history, hovering above Jezero Crater on Mars, demonstrating that powered, controlled flight

Cocoa Supplementation Mitigates Severity of Fatty Liver Disease 2021-04-19 08:56:06Supplementation of cocoa powder, derived from Theobroma cacao, in the diet of high-fat-fed mice with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease reduced the sev

Hubble Zooms In on Magnificent Spiral Galaxy: NGC 2021-04-19 04:18:27Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have produced a spectacularly detailed image of a part of the spiral galaxy NGC 4603. NGC 4603 i

LOFAR Detects Lowest-Frequency Fast Radio Bursts to Date 2021-04-16 17:04:08Using the Low-Frequency Array (LOFAR), astronomers from the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) have found that fast radio bursts i

Neanderthal Nuclear DNA Found in Paleolithic Cave Sediments 2021-04-16 15:04:35An international team of scientists has developed new methods for the enrichment and analysis of nuclear DNA from sediments, and applied them to cave

How Many Tyrannosaurus rex Individuals Ever Roamed Earth? 2021-04-16 13:39:55Paleontologists estimate that the abundance of one of the best-known dinosaurs, Tyrannosaurus rex, at any one time was about 20,000 individuals, that

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Ground and satellite observations map building damage after 2021-04-22 12:36:49Days after the 4 August 2020 massive explosion at the port of Beirut in Lebanon, researchers were on the ground mapping the impacts of the explosion i

The science of spin: Asteroseismologists confirm older stars 2021-04-22 12:36:46Stars spin faster than expected as they age according to a new study which uses asteroseismology to shed new light on this emerging theory.

How we know whether and when to pay 2021-04-22 12:36:28International team of researchers identifies cognitive computations underlying human predictive behavior.

Using exoplanets as dark matter detectors 2021-04-22 12:36:20In the continuing search for dark matter in our universe, scientists believe they have found a unique and powerful detector: exoplanets. Astrophysicis

Fighting harmful bacteria with nanoparticles 2021-04-22 12:36:16Multi-resistant pathogens are a serious and increasing problem in today's medicine. Where antibiotics are ineffective, these bacteria can cause life-

California's wildfire season has lengthened, and its peak 2021-04-22 12:36:11Researchers have analyzed CALFIRE wildfire statistics from 2000 to 2019, comparing them with data from 1920 to 1999, to learn that the annual burn sea

Mars' changing habitability recorded by ancient dune fields 2021-04-22 10:29:01An international team has found evidence of ancient dunes on Mars that could help explain ancient surface conditions.

The future looks bright for infinitely recyclable plastic 2021-04-22 10:28:51Plastics are ubiquitous, but they're not practical. Less than 10% are recycled, and the other approximately 8 billion tons are creating a pollution c

ALMA discovers rotating infant galaxy with help of 2021-04-22 09:38:39Using ALMA, astronomers found a rotating baby galaxy 1/100th the size of the Milky Way at a time when the Universe was only seven percent of its prese

Astronomers release new all-sky map of Milky Way's 2021-04-21 22:22:54The highlight of the new chart is a wake of stars, stirred up by a small galaxy set to collide with the Milky Way. The map could also offer a new test

Warming seas might also look less colorful to 2021-04-21 20:01:27Climate change is driving some fish into cooler, deeper waters. Now they may be faced with another challenge: how to make sense of a world drained of

Collaborative research could help fine-tune the production of 2021-04-21 20:01:24Much of common pharmaceutical development today is the product of laborious cycles of tweaking and optimization. In each drug, a carefully concocted f

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NASA's Perseverance Rover Just Made Oxygen On Mars 2021-04-22 17:27:55An experimental device called MOXIE successfully converted some of the red planet's carbon dioxide into enough oxygen to sustain a human for 10 minut

John Kerry’s Climate Warning: 'Even If We Get 2021-04-22 15:28:02The little-noticed remark came during a finance session of President Biden's big Earth Day climate summit.

Pregnant Women Who Get COVID-19 Have Higher Risk 2021-04-22 12:52:45Researchers say expectant mothers can gain some protection by getting vaccinated.

Biden Pledges U.S. Will Cut Climate-Changing Pollution At 2021-04-22 06:00:06The new target for limiting planet-warming pollution nearly doubles Obama's goal, highlighting how much time to act was lost during the Trump years.

Pesky Turtle Messes With Some Lions And Totally 2021-04-21 04:41:57The troublesome terrapin didn't seem to care that it was taunting two of the world's most fearsome apex predators.

COVID-19 Variants: Here's How The Vaccines Still Protect 2021-04-19 13:24:48The coronavirus shots don't just produce antibodies -- they also create T-cells. Here's what those are, and why they matter.

As States Thwart Climate Progress, Progressives Pitch A 2021-04-19 11:53:17Reps. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) are pitching a Green New Deal for local governments.

NASA's Mars Helicopter Takes Flight 2021-04-19 07:10:13The mini 4-pound copter named Ingenuity achieved the first powered, controlled flight on another planet.

First-Ever Wild Wolf Collar Camera Shows What They 2021-04-19 03:58:22This canine's favorite meal might surprise you.

2.5 Billion T. Rexes Have Roamed The Earth, 2021-04-17 10:59:49A whole lot of Tyrannosaurus rexes used to rule the planet.

American And 2 Russians Safely Return To Earth 2021-04-17 10:30:03After 6 months on the International Space Station, the astronaut and cosmonauts are reacclimating to gravity.

Trump EPA Official Reportedly Blocked Warning About Carcinogenic 2021-04-16 21:08:50The Trump appointee told a local official not to release air quality data despite fears a toxic gas could create a Flint-like crisis, an inspector gen

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Malaria vaccine becomes first to achieve WHO-specified 75% 2021-04-23 00:00:00* High-level vaccine efficacy of 77% in African children achieve WHO-specified efficacy goal of 75%* Vaccine, trialled in 450 children, shows favour

Radar satellites can better protect against bushfires and 2021-04-23 00:00:00New research led by Curtin University has revealed how radar satellites can improve the ability to detect, monitor, prepare for and withstand natural

Study uncovers human-to-cat transmission of the virus that 2021-04-23 00:00:00New research provides evidence that people have transmitted SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, to cats during the pandemic in the UK. The stu

Using spatial distance strategically with luxury and popular 2021-04-23 00:00:00The distance between the product and the consumer, whether in real life or in ads, can have a profound influence on how consumers evaluate the product

Plant provenance influences pollinators 2021-04-22 00:00:00Insect decline poses challenges for the pollination of wild and cultivated plants. Landscape ecologists from Münster University have now discover

Story Tip from Johns Hopkins experts on COVID-19 2021-04-22 00:00:00Story Tip from Johns Hopkins Experts on COVID-19

Scientists propose new formation mechanism for solar coronal 2021-04-22 00:00:00A research team led by Dr. LI Leping from the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC) proposed a new formation m

Finding new life for wine-grape residue 2021-04-22 00:00:00New research from food scientists at the University of California, Davis, finds a wealth of potentially health-enhancing compounds and sugar molecules

Artificial intelligence model predicts which key of the 2021-04-22 00:00:00With an artificial intelligence (AI) method developed by researchers at Aalto University and University of Helsinki, researchers can now link immune c

Mutations can reduce effect of hormonal treatment in 2021-04-22 00:00:00A small proportion of women who receive anti-estrogen treatment after breast cancer surgery have worse outcomes. This is associated with mutations in

Study finds stereotactic body radiotherapy is safe for 2021-04-22 00:00:00In a phase 1 clinical trial to evaluate the safety of the approach, UChicago Medicine researchers found that high-powered, tightly-targeted radiation

Use of e-cigarettes plus tobacco cigarettes linked to 2021-04-22 00:00:00Using both e-cigarettes and tobacco cigarettes may increase the risk of developing respiratory symptoms--such as cough and wheeze--compared with using

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Que sait-on du « double mutant » indien 2021-04-22 16:05:14Un nouveau variant du coronavirus a émergé en Inde alors que la situation sanitaire est alarmante dans ce pays. Que savons-nous de ces m

Les plus belles photos de la Terre de 2021-04-22 15:01:21Depuis la Station spatiale internationale, les astronautes disposent d’un point de vue unique sur la planète Terre. Au cours des ann&eacu

Voyage dans les îles enchantées des Galápagos avec 2021-04-22 14:08:14Mythes et légendes de l’époque des pirates lui ont donné le nom d'îles enchantées. Et l’enchanteme

Journée de la Terre : connaissez-vous « l'overview 2021-04-22 14:03:15Aujourd'hui, le monde célèbre la Journée de la Terre. Créé par l'association « Jour de la Terre »&nbs

Bon plan Cdiscount : 418 € d'économie sur 2021-04-22 13:30:05Un ultra portable au design soigné avec plus de 359 euros d'économies, c'est ce que propose Cdiscount avec ce Huawei Matebook. &A

Observez cette nuit la pluie d'étoiles filantes des 2021-04-22 12:38:17C’est cette nuit que la pluie d’étoiles filantes des Lyrides devrait atteindre son optimum. Malheureusement, la Lune gibbeuse qui b

Ingenuity : son deuxième vol, plus long et 2021-04-22 12:28:20Ce lundi 19 avril 2021, Ingenuity réalisait l’exploit. Le premier vol d’un engin motorisé et contrôlé sur une a

Ami Vitale : « nous faisons tous partie du 2021-04-22 12:05:01La photojournaliste américaine pour le National Geographic, Ami Vitale, nous parle des moments tragiques qu'elle a vécus, des

La Russie a un projet de torpille nucléaire 2021-04-22 12:03:00Dans l’Arctique, l’armée russe accumule du matériel et des armes secrètes. Parmi elles, il y aurait un projet de torp

Data analyst ou data scientist : quel métier 2021-04-22 11:00:39Depuis quelques années maintenant, les offres d’emplois et de formations de data analyst ou data scientist ont fait leur apparition. Le d

Pourquoi la Russie veut remplacer la Station spatiale 2021-04-22 10:27:00« Nous ne pouvons pas risquer la vie de nos cosmonautes. » C’est la justification avancée par le vice-premier ministre r

Perseverance réussit l'exploit de produire de l'oxygène sur 2021-04-22 09:45:20Pour Perseverance, le dernier rover de la Nasa posé sur Mars depuis le mois de février dernier, les succès se suivent. La Nasa vi

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La Chine annoncera le nom de son premier 2021-04-18 20:00:00La Chine annoncera le nom de son premier rover martien lors de la Journée chinoise de l'Espace, qui tombe le 24 avril selon l'Administration

L'hélicoptère martien de la NASA tentera son premier 2021-04-18 20:00:00La NASA espère réaliser lundi matin le premier vol de son hélicoptère martien Ingenuity, a annoncé l'agence spatia

Chine : les téléphones 5G continuent de dominer 2021-04-17 20:00:00Les expéditions de téléphones 5G ont continué de dominer le marché chinois des smartphones en mars, le total des ex

Arrivée du vaisseau spatial habité et de la 2021-04-14 20:00:00Le vaisseau spatial habité et la fusée porteuse pour la mission spatiale habitée Shenzhou-12 sont arrivés au Centre de lan

La Chine publie en ligne les données des 2021-04-13 20:00:00L'Administration nationale de l'espace de Chine (ANEC) a publié une base de données en ligne pour le premier lot d'échantillon

La Chine crée un comité consultatif d'experts pour 2021-04-12 20:00:00La Chine a créé un comité d'experts pour les échantillons lunaires, a déclaré mardi l'Administration spati

La fusée chinoise pour la mission à destination 2021-04-11 20:00:00La fusée chinoise Longue Marche-7 Y3, qui lancera le vaisseau cargo de la station spatiale chinoise, est arrivée sur son site de lanceme

La NASA reporte le premier vol de son 2021-04-11 20:00:00La NASA a décidé de reporter le premier vol expérimental de l'hélicoptère Ingenuity sur Mars, qui aura lieu au plu

La Chine lance un nouveau satellite pour l'enquête 2021-04-08 20:00:00La Chine a envoyé vendredi avec succès un satellite d'expérience sur l'orbite prévue depuis le Centre de lancement de sa

La sonde chinoise Chang'e-4 redémarre pour son 29e 2021-04-06 20:00:00L'atterrisseur et le rover de la sonde Chang'e-4 ont redémarré pour leur 29e jour lunaire sur la face cachée de la Lune.

Le télescope chinois publie les données de huit 2021-04-05 20:00:00La Chine a publié les données de huit années de recherche réalisées par le télescope d'observation LAMOST (

Un submersible autonome chinois établit un nouveau record 2021-04-01 20:00:00Un véhicule sous-marin autonome (AUV) de pleine profondeur développé par l'Université d'ingénierie de Harbin (HEU